Anne Frank's 'one true love' pictured for posterity

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THE HAGUE (AFP) — The face of Peter Schiff, described as "my one true love" by Anne Frank in her Nazi-era diary, is to be shown to the public for the first time by the museum dedicated to her life in Amsterdam, the Anne Frank Foundation said Monday.

A picture of the boy, 13 when his adolescent romance began with the 11-year-old Frank, was handed over by childhood friend Ernst Michaelis, who visited the Anne Frank museum with his children and grandchildren last month.

It is signed "your friend Lutz Peter Schiff" and dates from 1939.

Like Frank, Schiff -- who would pick her up after classes in the summer of 1940 -- later died in a concentration camp, at Auschwitz.

Frank's entry for Friday 7 January 1944 states: "I'm such an idiot. I forgot that I...